Especialista de Planejamento Financeiro ISC - São Paulo

Job Purpose:

• The FP&A ISC analyst reports to the Head of Regional FP&A and works closely with the ISC Navigator, creating an impact by providing high value adding analysis to the ISC organization.
• Supports the ISC Navigator in generating insights, particular in the area of manufacturing productivity, product costing, CAPEX monitoring, cost of quality, product costing, warehousing and distribution cost, inventories and slow moving inventory.
• Supports the global FP&A ISC processes, like planning and budgeting that support the strategic objectives of AkzoNobel.
• Supports  continuous improvements and standardization initiatives.

Key Activities

Generating insights and analyzing trends

• Analyzes current and past trends in key performance indicators; monitor performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variance
• Analyses landed product cost across sites and calculates labor rates as part of the product costing process
• Provide support in completing AR business case for capex
• Analyses inventory levels and alerts navigator on potential SLOB risk
• Monitors capex, cost of quality and manufacturing productivity
• Develops financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives (such as ALPS/Continuous improvement, ISC cost of quality, footprint reduction)
• Provides inputs to Commercial FP&A on the impact of raw material changes on COGS to enable early pricing actions

Planning and Budgeting

• Drives the continued development of the QRF and other planning and forecasting processes, in particular the COGS forecasting process
• Consolidates inputs from the ISC teams and navigators for submission of QRF and Budget into the required platforms
• Measures forecast accuracy and highlights to the Navigators areas for improvement

Continuous improvement:

• Proactively seeks opportunities to improve and standardize data reports to gain efficiency
• Eliminates, simplifies, standardizes, and automates outputs in a structured and consistent manner
• Shares best practice among the team and other regions

Experience

• Solid experience in a similar role/field.
• You have affinity for numbers and systems, and have strong analytical skills combined with a critical, but constructive, attitude.
• Experience in building automated reports and models is a must; excellent financial and analytical skills.
• Strong HFM, ERP and BI systems experience.
• Strong analytic skills and the ability to analyze, organize, summarize and articulate complex financial information for decision making.
• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, including ability to articulate recommendations in a concise and timely manner.
• Able to prioritize and work with multiple supervisors.
• Strong ‘can-do’ mentality and ‘drive’ to accomplish tasks in an environment with multiple stakeholders.
• Self-starter, hands on mentality and team player.
• Being able to make independent interpretation, draw conclusions and propose solutions.
• Able to reduce complex and/or large volumes of data to a readable high level.
• Accurate, organized and disciplined in order to achieve high quality output and to meet strict deadlines.
  
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